Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-27

band, by the way, is talking of an excur-
sion to Burlington in the near future on
the Maquam and as an attraction to draw
crowd some favor getting the old Swan
ton base ball club together and arranging
match at Burlington with the l.. V. VI. Is.
.....Prof. Chttenden's school closes in
three weeks with graduation exercises,
the first ever held here There are six
graduates and some of them will enter the
l. V. NJ. in the fall...... The Maquam is
doing rushing business.
Fairfax
There will be lay service at the First
Baptist church, Sunday, conducted by
Deacon George Stafford ..... Miss May
Farnsworth, teacher of the village school.
is sick, and the school is to be closed un-
worth of Buck Hollow has gone to Kan
sas to join her sister, Mrs. Jennie Brown.
&c. Cora Maxtield daughter of George
MaXiield, who has been dangerously i'll
for the the past three months, is slowly re-
covering Mary Turner and Felix
DrinKwine were married on Monday, Rev.
Father Yvenic of Burlington officiating.
......J, b. Case is repainting his house,
barn and other outbuildings, and fences.
Albert Butler is doing the work ....P.
b. Shannon has taken Jennison Satford's
entire dairy, on account of his illness, and
! will carry it on in connection with the one
they had previously taken. .... Miss Mary
| Wheeler is giving musical instructions to
! CLASS Ol young ldUltS. MISS Elsie
Montague OF Fletcher is in town for short
visit the guest of her uncle, ID. A. Shep-
! paIdSOn.
North Ferrisburgh.
Miss Phoebe Wheeler mas returned
| home from long visit with her friends
in Northern New York ..... Miss Ann
Jones, a member of the Methodist church,
died while the minister was at conference.
Appropriate services will be held next
Sunday at the usual hour of service. .....
Mr.. W. H. Dow has purchased of G. &.
Martin several rods of land beside that on
which his shop stands. s........Mr. George
kmball is slowly recovering from injuries
received in being thrown from wagon
some days since........Mr. Caleb Har-
rington and Miss Eliza V. Palmer on Sat
ulday evening were joined in marriage by
their minister at the .parsonage........
Webb's brass band Is already able to play
well. The boys apply themselves to their
lessons and the prospect is the place will
soon have a band of which it will not be
ashamed.
Other Parts of the State.
Ground has been broken for the new
main building of the Vermont Academy
at SaXtons River, which will be erected
during the summer
There are at present some 26 creameres
in Franklin county, which is rather fair
! record in the line of butter making for
population of not quite 81 ,000
Mr.. c. +. Bush of Orwell and Mr..
George Briggs of Brandon, directors of
Y the Vermont Investment and Guarantee
company, have started on an extended
business trip through the West in the in
terest OF the company. This company has
+ recently increased its capital to 100000.
, Windsor County Court Will commence
to-day, and Judge II. Walker of Ludlow
{ will preside for the first time In his own
: county.
10, JnlI Lab, o1
1 ministrators OF jeremiah Essex, deceased
of Bennington, have been granted
patent for ii boDbin or cOp-tube composed
! of Il rigid head, a flexible and elastic body
4 rough on its outside and inside, and a me-
= tallic tip formed of a section of tubing
: with its upper part turned back into the
other portion.
q At the mortgages sale of property at
the Ascutney Mills, last week, the machin-
y cry in the lower mill was bought by Fred
D X. Jones for $4l00. The machinery in the
e upper mill was sold to jeremiah Clark OF
Lowell, Mass, for Sl30O. AS soon as pos
= sible Mr.. Jones will have the lower mill
v running with full force. Unless the ma
! chinery at the upper mills is soon leased,
K it will be removed.
n w. S. Flanders carriage maker of Bar
+ ton Landing has been petitioned into in
b solvency.
e The State Medical society holds its semi
5 annual meeting at st. Johnsbury June %
e and "A.
The trustees of the village of Rutland
. have ordered the police to prevent ball
\ playing in the streets and parks, and on
{ Sunday.
An association of prominent New Eng
/ land breeders will hold public sale of
= Holstein cattle at Putney, Wednesday,
June l.
The projectors of the proposed anti
coercion meeting i'll Rutland have aban-
h doned the idea on account of the diff
/ Guilty about obtaining prominent men to
n speak.